River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-06-09
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

AT Presburg an anti-Jewish riot was
queled by the military.
New dynamite outrages are reported
among the Belgian strikers.
Hot winds nave, damaged the wheat
drop in some sections of California.
For the first ten months of the fiscal
year the internal revenue collections
were 500, 25S, O66
An Austrian postal clerk has abscond-
ed with registered letters containing
$4,000 in bank notes
w. II. Doane of Cincinnati makes
$4,000 year writing hymns, and there
are some evangaliSts who are said To
make nearly as much more by singing
them.
Huron, Beadlo county: 10 per cent
decrease in the acreage; wheat and flax
% Ter cent decrease the largest wheat
farm being 5000 acres,
Hong Yen Chang, Chinese gentle
man, viii be admitted TO practice at the
New York bar as soon rs the necessary
enabling act can be passed BY the
Legislature.
Another of the UniverSalist women
ministers, the Rev. Annette j. Shaw.
can throw a base ball scientifically. She
got some practice with her brother
students in the theological school.
Lawrence Kleibacker Ketchum is
probably the youngest member of a
press association in the world He is
9 months old, and his father edits the
Blount County (Ala.) Dispatch.
Prince Murat's appeal for reinstate-
ment in the French army was fayorably
considered by the Council Of Stale be-
cause he bears the sword which was
the scourge of the Prussians at Jena
Prince William, eldest son of the
Crown Prince of Prussia, shuns the so
ciety of his wife, who has an absolute
dread of her husband He does not
maltreat her beyond studied neglect.
Annie Louise Cary (Now Mrs Ray
mOnd), once a general favorite on the
operate stage, is recalled TO public rec
collection by the announcement that she
viii spend a part of the summer with
friends at Rutland. VT
The Marquis of Stafford, eldest son
of the duke of Sutherland. was among
the passengers of the steamer Gaelic,
recently quarantined in the Harbor of
San Francisco with small pox on board.
Mrs. Col. Chaplin of Los Angeles.
Cal, some time ago purchae d 200
acres of land near Riverside at 5000 an
acre. Lately she sold il at an advance
which Melted her clear profit of
$4,000.
Nellie Lamb of Fillmore County,
Nebraska, aged l. years, and wearing
short dresses recently ran away from
home with a printer named Kelsey.
This is about the freshest case of spring
Lamb on record.
Editor O'Brien, who has recently
been enjoying such a lively season in
Canada, is ) feet 10 inches in hight,
spare in build, with dark brown hair
sparse beard of lighter shade His
eyes are blue and sunken.
Martin F. Upper. the author of
.'Proverbial Philosophy" is almost
entirely broken down in health. For
some weeks now he has been scarcely
AtAG " Atta'A VI AAAAt- Ilt VIII ne .
years of age next July.
The Car of Russia is an adept on
the French horn and often beguiles the
solitude of his Imprisonment by airs
upon that instrument The intense
luminosity q the Nihilists is explained,
and to some extent excused
Judge A. &. Mqgrath of South Caro-
lima is talked of by the people of that
state for vacancy on the Supreme bench.
The Charleston News and Courier says
that if the opportunity had come to
President Grant he would have APP
pointed Judge Magrath
The Rev. Amanda Deyo. who was
ordained at Poughkeepsie year ago or
there abouts, was a farmers wife, and
for may years speaker among the
Friends. She IS a morsel of a woman.
with a kindly, contented face and the
smoothest of brown hair.
Miss Maria Parloa has given up her
New York Cooking School. She will
spend the next year lecturing. proba-
bly, in the South. 1t is one of Miss Par
loa's pet grievances that women will
not attend her classes TO be taught to
make bread. but that they insist on
fancy dishes, which in her estimation.
are far less important to learn.
There Is living in Plymouth Pa.
probably the smallest man in the coun-
try. His name is Rees Whittier lie
is "a years old. stands just 80 inches
high. and weighs fifty-eight pounds.
He is native of Wales. and came 10
this country in 1876. since which date
he has lived in Wilkesbarre, in Dan
vile, Pa, and in Plymouth.
A New Haven Morning News legis-
lative reporter, according to the singu-
lar Connecticut custom, was voted 5000
by the house The proprietors Of the
News discharged him on his refusal to
turn the money into the state treasury.
and then sent their own check for 5000
to the state treasurer. The treasurer
has retdrned the paper, saying that he
cannot receive it without a special vote
of the Legislature.
Gen. George A. Sheridan says he got
more money for less actual service than
any other man 77hO ever served in Con-
gTess. He was not admitted 10 his seat
until about three hours before the ex-
piration of his term. and he drew salary
mileage. etc, amounting to about
81, 200. He was also at one time the
lucky holder Of an office at Washington
with fat salary attached, and when
asked what were his Office hours re-
piled, From ? to 3 every other Tues
day afternoon.
Mr. David Neal has been busy lie
Baltimore painting portraits ia Mr.. T.
Harrison Carrot family, Mr. Garrett
5 the Younger brother Of Mr. Robert
Garrett. He married Miss Whitridge
d Baltimegs. who !, tall, fine-looking
EomaD. They have two handsome
boys, and it is on portraits OF these
children and Mrs. Garrett that NJ.
Neal has been at w0rk at their country
residence near Baltimore. Mr. Garrett
lad not quite the business talents or
Utilities of his elder brother, but having
! large fortune and no great ambitions
ne takes life easily. and is apparently
satisfied to shine as a lesser light than
he Il. & o. President
Something of a Esenefaetor.
WHO are the benefactCrs Of the